French player Alize Cornet has called for the extreme heat policy at the Australian Open to be re-evaluated after she said she almost fainted in the broiling temperatures during her third-round match Friday at Melbourne Park.

"I'm off to have an ice bath", was all he managed to say after the marathon match.

Six minutes later and a third break, this time to love, brought the first set to the German who celebrated her 30th birthday earlier this week by taking it with just two unforced errors.

Federer is yet to drop a set in Melbourne as he seeks a 20th grand slam title.

Chung showed another sign of his promise by coolly closing out a five-set win over German fourth seed Alexander Zverev, a player many pundits have widely tipped as a future grand slam victor. He began a fightback after losing the first two sets to Hungary's Marton Fucsovics but winning the third.

The second seeded Swiss, who is coming off an extraordinary 2017, when he won a fifth Australian Open title and a record eighth at Wimbledon, faces Slovenia's Aljaz Bedene.

Nearly down and out, she broke Kerber for the first time and held to get back on serve at 2-2. I was really trying to play my game.

The final set lasted two hours and 22 minutes while the 48 games equals the most for a women's match in Australian Open history, tying the 1996 quarter-final between Chanda Rubin Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, which Rubin won 6-4 2-6 16-14. The former world No 1 had to drop out of the year's first Slam to go for a hip surgery.

She is now guided by prominent Belgian coach Wim Fissette, who split with Romanian top seed Simona Halep at the end of the 2016 season. It happened in NY.

Tournament organisers said they had been "close" to calling a halt to play and shutting the main stadiums roofs.

In a news conference, Djokovic was immediately asked about the timeout and replied: "It was okay".

In this case, play will be suspended on the outer courts, while matches continue with the roof closed at Melbourne Park's three larger arenas.

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